Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated and amended and continued to debate the tax reduction bill...
...Began consideration of the appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture...
...getting rapid results, the entire tax bill was read over before the Senate, all sections on which there was no disagreement being approved and other parts of the bill being left for later disposition. In this way the normal tax rates (1˝% on the first $4,000, 3% on the next $4,000 and 5% thereafter) were approved, as were personal exemptions (of $1,500 and $3,500), earned income (25% deduction up to $20,000), and the repeal of the tax on the capital stock of corporations. But on the question of estate taxes, gift taxes, tax publicity, nothing...
...than the Folies Bergére, farther up Montmartre. Elbowing their way forward the eager Parisians were waited upon by the most insolent and rapacious hat-check girls, program boys, and tip-extracting ushers in Western Europe. Forewarned that the foreigners have accustomed the Concert's servitors to pocket a bill of any size without giving change, the Parisians placed exactly one franc 50 centimes (6c) in the hands of the program boys, and rewarded the ushers with 50 centimes per head (2c) for showing them to their seats. Then they settled down to enjoy Quel Beau Nu, successor to last...
...Frank W. Ballou of the National Education Association. What called this formidable-sounding organization into existence? Simply this: U. S. taxpayers, while believing in their public schools, are not altogether satisfied that education is run in a businesslike way. The nation's yearly two-billion-dollar public education bill is twice that of 1920, four times that...